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West Guiji Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Bule Hora Woreda

Administative Division
In 2007 there were 5 urban and 34 rural Kebele in the Bule Hora Woreda. The number of Kebele, their names and their inhabitants are listed here as they appear in the official 2007 census data, published by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia. The number of Kebele has obviously increased since 2007. A 2016 scientific essay which includes a map of the Kebele of Bula Hora Woreda says that there are 48 Kebele in this Woreda, nine more as listed in the 2007 census. This essays is an example for the different spellings of the Kebele names in one and the same source. We can find small differences like Gerba/Gerbaa, Buda Magada/Budaa Magadaa which are only based on different transcription of the Oromo name, but others like Didole Hara/Diidoolee, Burka Ebala/Eebalaa or even Cheri Gololcha/Cari Saphalliisaa can cause bigger problems of identification.

Infrastructure
The busy, tarred all-weather highway 8/80 which is part of the Addis Abeba-Nairobi road and a designated part of the Cairo-Cape Town Trans-African Highway 4 (TAH 4) is going through this woreda from north to the south. 36 km of this highway are located in Bule Hora. The second bigger road is the Highway to Dawa Digati, Shakiso and Kibre Mengist (Adola), the most important mining region of Oromia and Ethiopia. This highway leaves the highway 8 4.7 km north of the center of Bule Hora Town. 39 km of this highway are located in Bule Hora. It is the most important road for access to the southeastern parts of the woreda. There are two more roads which can be called highways and which are accessable by normal car: One is going westwards, connecting Bule Hora Town with Soyama, the aministrative center of Burji special woreda in the in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region. 41.5 Km of this highway are in the Bule Hora woreda. The other one connects Gerba with the administrative center on the Kercha woreda, Qericha, east of Gerba. Only 4.6 km of this highway are located on the territory of the Bula Hoa Woreda, though. 131.1 km of highway-size roads exist in this woreda. This means that the infrastructure is relatively good, compared with the other woredas is the West Guji Zone. But there are still a number of kebele which can only be reached on roads which are require 4x4 wheel vehicles and are not passable at all in the rain seasons. These other roads are still of great importance for the inhabitants, who mainly use them by foot with or without animal herds.